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Identifying direct and indirect associations among traits by merging phylogenetic comparative methods and structural equation models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Traits underlie organismal responses to their environment and are essential to predict community responses to environmental conditions under global change.
James T. Thorson, Aurore A. Maureaud, Romain Frelat, Bastien Mérigot, Jennifer S. Bigman, Sarah T. Friedman, Maria Lourdes D. Palomares, Malin L. Pinsky, Samantha A. Price, Peter Wainwright   +9 more
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Non-invasive genetic monitoring for the threatened valley elderberry longhorn beetle. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
The valley elderberry longhorn beetle (VELB), Desmocerus californicus dimorphus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is a federally threatened subspecies endemic to the Central Valley of California.
Raman P Nagarajan, Alisha Goodbla, Emily Graves, Melinda Baerwald, Marcel Holyoak, Andrea Schreier   +5 more
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The first isolation and detection of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale from swollen head syndrome-infected broiler flocks in Iraq [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2021
Background and Aim: The swollen head syndrome (SHS) makes up complex diseases that infect the upper respiratory tract in poultry and causes several economic losses.
Baraa Akeel Al-Hasan, Abdullah O. Alhatami, Husam Muhsen Abdulwahab, Ghadeer Sabah Bustani, Eman Abdul Wahab Alkuwaity   +4 more
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Fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods in a changing environment : a transcriptomic approach [PDF]

, 2020
By 2100, global warming is predicted to significantly reduce the capacity of marine primary producers for long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LC-PUFA) synthesis.
Boyen, Jens, De Troch, Marleen, Fink, Patrick, Hablützel, Pascal I., Mensens, Christoph   +4 more
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Predicting direct and indirect non-target impacts of biocontrol agents using machine-learning approaches.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Biological pest control (i.e. 'biocontrol') agents can have direct and indirect non-target impacts, and predicting these effects (especially indirect impacts) remains a central challenge in biocontrol risk assessment.
Hannah J Kotula, Guadalupe Peralta, Carol M Frost, Jacqui H Todd, Jason M Tylianakis   +4 more
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PrePhyloPro: phylogenetic profile-based prediction of whole proteome linkages [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Direct and indirect functional links between proteins as well as their interactions as part of larger protein complexes or common signaling pathways may be predicted by analyzing the correlation of their evolutionary patterns.
Yulong Niu, Chengcheng Liu, Shayan Moghimyfiroozabad, Yi Yang, Kambiz N. Alavian   +4 more
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Life-history evolution on tropidurinae lizards: influence of lineage, body size and climate. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The study of life history variation is central to the evolutionary theory. In many ectothermic lineages, including lizards, life history traits are plastic and relate to several sources of variation including body size, which is both a factor and a life ...
Renata Brandt, Carlos A Navas
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Precipitation is the dominant driver for bird species richness, phylogenetic and functional structure in university campuses in northern China

Avian Research, 2020
Background Although urbanization is threatening biodiversity worldwide, the increasing green urban spaces could harbor relatively high biodiversity. Therefore, how to maintain the biodiversity in urban ecosystem is crucial for sustainable urban planning ...
Chenxia Liang, Jun Liu, Bin Pan, Na Wang, Jie Yang, Guisheng Yang, Gang Feng   +6 more
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Reconstructing horizontal gene flow network to understand prokaryotic evolution

Open Biology, 2022
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major source of phenotypic innovation and a mechanism of niche adaptation in prokaryotes. Quantification of HGT is critical to decipher its myriad roles in microbial evolution and adaptation.
Soham Sengupta, Rajeev K. Azad
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Cloning and Expression Characteristics Analysis of the Aquaporin Gene EHP00_492 from Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei

Guangdong nongye kexue, 2023
【Objective】The aquaporin gene EHP00_492 from Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) was cloned and its expression characteristics in EHP mature spores was analyzed, which provided a theoretical basis for studying the function of EHP aquaporin.【Method】The ...
Chenxi LI, Huixin WU, Yujiao WU, Jie CHEN, Xianzhi MENG, Guoqing PAN, Mengxian LONG   +6 more
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